Shipment Placard Generator
Turn a shipment into clean, dock-ready placards — one per handling unit, one per page. For LTL freight you get pallet placards with the aggregate NMFC class; for small parcel you get box placards with the weight and dimensions. Either way each shows Ship From / Ship To, your references, and an automatic “N of M” count. Prefill it from a saved shipment, then print or save to PDF.
Placard type
Weight unit
Addresses
References
Handling stamps (optional)
Pallets — one placard each
Placards
What a placard is for
A placard is the sheet you tape or slip onto each handling unit so anyone touching the freight — your dock, the driver, the cross-dock, the consignee — can read the shipment at a glance without opening the paperwork. The two things a receiver checks first are the piece count and whether the units that arrived match the units on the bill: that’s why the “N of M” band is the biggest thing on the page.
A driver signing for “4 of 4” and counting three units is your best early warning that something got left on the dock.
Pallet placards vs box placards
Switch Placard type to match the shipment. Pallet placards lead with the aggregate NMFC class — the number the carrier rates the whole load at — so every skid reads the same class, matching the bill. Box placards drop the class (small parcel isn’t rated on freight class) and lead with the box weight and dimensions instead. When you prefill from a saved shipment, the type is set for you from how the shipment was built.
Printing
Each placard is sized to its own letter page, so “Print” (or “Save as PDF”) gives you one clean sheet per unit with no page setup. For a peel-and-stick label, print to PDF and drop it on your label stock, or print the page and tape it on — the heavy border is there to survive a busy dock.